In volume 3 issue 1 of Reviews in Cultural Theory, Joshua Neves has reviewed these two books:
Yomi Braester. Painting the City Red: Chinese Cinema and the Urban Contract. Duke University Press, 2010. 405 pp.
Robin Visser. Cities Surround the Countryside: Urban Aesthetics in Postsocialist China. Duke University Press, 2010. 362 pp.
Read the review in the original context here
and click here for youtube discussion by the authors of those books.
I wrote about Cedric Price’s Potteries Thinkbelt not too long ago and this morning I saw this on iGNANT and had to post it right away. The Rolling Masterplan was proposed by swedish architecture firm Jagnefalt Milton in 2010 as an entry for a design competition for the city of Åndalsnes in Norway. The plan was to use the old industry train tracks for a new kind of infrastructure carrying mobile buildings that could be rolled back and forth depending on the season or situation. The design integrated existing railway tracks with new extensions to moved buildings throughout the city, providing an opportunity for reorganizing in various confirgurations to accommodate a combination of different scenarios.
As I have mentioned before in my post about Cedric Price’s Fun Palace that Price envisioned an architecture that incorporated mobility. Price saw Fun Palace as a structure that was flexible and could be reconfigured for…
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Shifting nature of sands and tides make it difficult to measure accurately the amount of beach that’s available for recreation, development and conservation, but a team of University of Georgia researchers has combined several remote sensing technologies with historical data to create coastal maps with an unsurpassed level of accuracy.
In a study published in the journal Tourism Management, the researchers applied their technique to Georgia’s Jekyll Island and unveiled a new website that allows developers, conservationists and tourists access to maps and data on beach availability, tidal ranges and erosion.
By combining the sources of remote sensing data with historical shoreline maps dating to 1857, the scientists created detailed maps that precisely delineate the boundary between the ocean and the land. Historical tidal data were used to create models of how Jekyll Island would fare under various calculations of sea-level rise and under tropical storm and hurricane storm surge conditions.
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